Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Pete Cornish G-2 is a Big Muff variant: germanium diodes, double buffered, and sporting a low-pass filter instead of the usual Big Muff tone stack. That being said, this is not your standard Big Muff – there’s little resemblance in sound, largely due to the lack of scooped mid-range provided by a standard Big … Read more
Schematic and info HERE It is obviously based on Colorsound Overdriver/Power Boost but with quite alot mods and addons. First there is two input buffers before a heavily modified Overdriver circuit. And at last there is an op amp recovery stage.
With onboard input buffer. The original had two LM741s but these is replaced with its dual op amp equivalent 1458 to keep the board reasonably small
The Pete Cornish CC-1 is an interesting one – two stages of soft clipping and a three-band active tone stack. I initially built and tested the CC-1 using the larger of the two layouts below, and I can’t say that I immediately loved it at the time. Regarding others in the Cornish line-up, I preferred the … Read more
The somewhat misleadingly named Foxx Clean Machine is lesser known than the other famous Foxx. Three gain stages stack via a rotary switch, then out via a standard volume pot. The result – dirt… dirt and more dirt. FOXX CLEAN MACHINE – VERO LAYOUT
The follow-up on the Runoffgroove Supreaux, the Supreaux Deux. An improved version of the original Supreaux design, running at 18v and with some changes to match the sound of the original amp as closely as possible. Please follow the link to the runoff groove site, as there’s an amazing amount of info on the development of … Read more
This is the Runoff Groove Supreaux, their first interpretation of a Supro 16T amp. It’s also known as the JHS Superbolt – which is almost identical to the Supreaux, but runs at 18v with a gain switch added. Just put the schematics side by side, and you will see what I mean. I added … Read more
